Anton Denikin

Anton Denikin (16 December 1872-8 August 1947) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Russian Army who was a White Army leader during the Russian Civil War.

Biography
Anton Denikin was born on 16 December 1872 near Wloclawek, Vistula Land, Russian Empire to a Russian father and Polish mother. Denikin joined the Imperial Russian Army and served as a Colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, and at the start of World War I in August 1914 he was the Chief-of-Staff of the Kiev Military District. Denikin led the Russian VIII Corps in the Brusilov Offensive in Romania, and he took part in Lavr Kornilov's failed counter-revolution against the Bolsheviks in 1917. Denikin led a White Army army in southern Ukraine during the Russian Civil War against the Red Army, and the betrayal of Nestor Makhno to the side of Leon Trotsky in the war with Denikin led to his lines of supply being cut off and his forces being defeated. Denikin's armies carried out massacres during the war, with Szymon Petlyura's Ukrainian nationalists and Denikin's Whites killing 100,000 Jews in pogroms. Denikin fled to Constantinople in Turkey, the United Kingdom, and then to the United States, dying in the Michigan town of Ann Arbor in 1947.